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20 Dec 2009 11:11

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Biz: Saab dead, then Saab not dead, then Saab dead, then Saab not dead

  • The Swedish automaker has another lease on life. After GM announced that the company would be closed last week after talks with potential suitor Spyker fell through, Spyker said “not so fast” and submitted another deal. “Despite our collective 11th-hour set-back, we are returning to the table with a renewed offer,” said Spyker Chief Executive Victor Muller. Saab’s 3,400 employees must be pleased that they’re being taken on such a comfortable merry-go-round. source
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18 Dec 2009 09:31

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Biz: Saab story: GM plans to shut the Swedish automaker down

  • 3,000 people will likely lose their jobs source
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01 Dec 2009 20:17

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Biz: We’d like to announce our candidacy for GM’s open CEO position

  • Dear rich people, we think we’d be a perfect fit for you. General Motors has had an incredibly rough last twelve months or so (though they’re recovering). Between a bankruptcy and a watchdog federal government, they’ve had zero room for error. And now their nine-month-old CEO, Frederick “Fritz” Henderson, is retiring. We smell a job opening! Here are three reasons GM should hire us as CEO:
  • Fresh bloodWe’re not the old guard, General Motors. We don’t do (#&@ the old way. In fact, we have no clue what the old way was! When we step into Fritz Henderson’s dusty old office (after having an exterminator go in and check for termites and bailout money), we plan on running the company as if we don’t know what we’re doing. But we do!
  • cars with brevity Here at ShortFormBlog, we know a thing or two about keeping things short and efficient. And we know that the government is on your back about creating more efficient cars. We plan on bringing our blogging technology to General Motors, and we’re going to upgrade the engines from internal combustion to WordPress. Thank us later, guys.
  • Family reunionWe know some of your old workers aren’t happy with you – all those layoffs, the concessions you forced the United Auto Workers to take, the outsourcing – and we plan to make it up to them, using the only method we know how – we’ll move them out of Michigan and put them in a state that isn’t a black hole of depression. Sound fair? source
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16 Nov 2009 09:51

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Biz: GM is looking a bit stronger after making it through bankruptcy

  • $1.15 billion amount in losses the auto manufacturer had as a result of their bankruptcy in July; they have $42.6 billion in cash on hand source
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06 Nov 2009 12:38

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Offbeat: South Koreans proud, fearful of woman who passed driving test

  • 950 tries before she finally got it right; holy crap source
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02 Nov 2009 09:27

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Biz: A year and some clunker sales make Ford huge profits

  • $997 million the size of Ford’s profits in the third quarter, largely helped by Cash for Clunker sales source
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26 Oct 2009 09:20

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Offbeat: Chinese kids have to do the dumbest things for some reason

Apparently, Chinese children have to salute all cars that pass. ‘Cause you never know when one of these cars is going to be carrying the corpse of Chairman Mao. source
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13 Oct 2009 21:18

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Biz: “Built Ford Tough”? More like “built for recall.”

  • 4.5 million Ford vehicles got recalled for faulty cruise control source
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30 Sep 2009 09:22

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Biz: Fear the floormats: Toyota issues a massive recall of its cars

  • 3.8 million Toyota cars could have dangerous loose floormats source
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22 Sep 2009 21:25

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Biz: General Motors is kicking production into high gear again

  • 3,000 workers are getting their jobs back now that the company is out of bankruptcy and needing cars source
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